| Course title | |||||
| 環境文化史 [Cultural History of Environment] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 2～ | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 01RN2228 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 高橋 美貴 [TAKAHASHI Yoshitaka] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| The purpose of this lecture is to consider the environmental history in the case of Japanese traditional society. This lecture will approach that purpose by paying attention to the following things such as historical landscapes, the lifestyle cultures, the livelihood cultures, which were formed between the people and nature. The era focused on in this lecture is the period from early modern to modern times (from 17th to the early 20th) in Japan. The historical changes in the urban landscape in Japan will be also focused on in this lecture. Through this lecture, I’d like you to have the knowledge about the characteristics of the traditional civilization that existed in Japan before industrialized civilization appeared and the disappearing process of the traditional civilization from a view point of environmental cultural history. |
| Expected Learning |
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1. To feel historical perspective as one of the methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities that aims to rethink our living times, society and civilization by combining spatial relative assessment and timewise relative assessment. 2. To develop historical perspective as one of Liberal Arts subjects that aim to consider, feel and re-experience things from different viewpoints through the eyes of people who come from other regions, civilizations and so on. 3. To be able to understand the characteristics of the Japanese traditional culture and the process how they were formed in the context of world history. Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy: See the Curriculum maps. (URL: https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/) |
| Course schedule |
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Ⅰ. Introduction - the traditional rural, family system and village in Japan - 1. Ecoregion Science and environmental cultural history(1st class) 2. The culture and history of Satoyama” in Musashino area (2nd class) Ⅱ.The cultural history of “Satoyama” 1.The cultural history of “Heichirin” (flatland forest) (3rd class) 2.The cultural history of “Karishikirin” (farm forest) (4th class) 3.The cultural history of “Kusayama” (grass-covered plain for farming) (5th class) 4.The cultural history of “Kusayama” and the traditional civilization of Japan (6th class) Ⅲ.The cultural history of manure and human waste (7th class) 1. The transportation of human waste -from urban area to rural area- (8th class) 2.The cultural history of excretion and lavatories (9th class) 3.The modern history of human waste (10th class) Ⅳ.The lower class and recycling system of the traditional urban society (11th class) Ⅴ.The cultural history of townscapes 1.The appearance and landscape of the modern city of Tokyo - as a case of “Yamanote” (the hilly sections of Tokyo)- (12th class) 2.The townscape and the urban culture in modern Japan - as a case of the “Shitamachi” (the commercial district of Tokyo) ? (12th-13th class) Concluding remarks (15th class) |
| Prerequisites |
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This is part of package subjects in major subjets of Department of Ecoregion Science. In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| To be announced in the lecture. Prints to be distributed in the class. |
| References |
| To be announced in the lecture. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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The grade will be carried out by the comment cards. I will ask the attendances to answer the lecturer’s questions and write your comments on them in every class. The lecturer will select interesting cards among them and introduce them in the next class. If “the comment card” is adopted, the submitter can be added points. If there are attendants who hope to write reports (optional reports), they can submit them and get points in addition to the comment cards’ points. However, the points of optional reports aren’t used to change grade D to C grade or higher. |
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| Course keywords |
| Lifestyle culture and livelihood culture, “Satoyama” ( forest or grassy fields near the human habitation used to maintain the traditional agriculture and live), the traditional civilization in Japan, Japan’s rapid economic growth in the post-war era, the changes of urban landscapes and culture |
| Office hours |
| By the demand. Please email me in advance to make appointments. |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 2/18/2019 5:56:39 PM |